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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Books | Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
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Haruki Murakami
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.
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More Details:
Author
Haruki Murakami
Pages
192
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Published Date
2009-08-11
ISBN
0307373088 9780307373083
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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Gabriela Reitz
"Well, apart from the fact that running has many parallels with the act and philosophy of life and what an amazing runner Murakami is, I didn't get much out of this book. I understand that he has amazing perseverance, dedication in doing things, writing or running. But for me this was a wrong book to start to know Murakami. I should have started with his work of fiction than a memoir like non-fiction."
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Santhosh Guru
"First Murakami-read given to me from a close colleague. Through reading it, I instantly became a hardcore Murakami fan and never looked back."
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Ariana Neal
"The narrative felt fulfilling and insightful without being overbearing."
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Taurean Jones
"Interesting insight on the world of running "
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Juan Gutierrez
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